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Author Rose, Sarah F., author.

Title No right to be idle : the invention of disability, 1850-1930 / Sarah F. Rose.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 382 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were being fired, and developmentally disabled individuals who had previously contributed domestic or agricultural labor in homes or on farms were being sent to institutions and poorhouses. [The author] pinpoints the origins and ramifications of this sea-change in American society, exploring the ways that public policy removed the disabled from the category of "deserving" recipients of public assistance, transforming them into a group requiring rehabilitation in order to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of advocates, program innovators, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose ... integrates disability history and labor history to show how disabled people and their families were relegated to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship, with vast consequences for debates about disability, poverty, and welfare in the century to come"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 16, 2017).
Subject People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Public opinion -- History.
People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- Employment -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Marginality, Social. (OCoLC)fst01009156
People with disabilities -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst01057253
People with disabilities -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01057275
People with disabilities -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01057285
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01057298
People with disabilities -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01057314
People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst01057318
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Invention of disability, 1850-1930
Other Form: Print version: Rose, Sarah F. No right to be idle. ©2017 1469630087 9781469630083 (OCoLC)960280373
ISBN 9781469624907 (electronic book)
1469624907 (electronic book)
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